The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-09-15
The STATE CAPITOL.
Correspondent 81" Sends His Weekly
Budget Of News.
A Few Lines Concerning the Tally Sheet
ForgerIes- Attorney Hull
ing Asked to Make Political Cap
ital Out OF II.

COLUMBUS. Sept. 12.-Ever since the
poll books and tally sheet OF the 18Th
Ward, this city, vote was altered after
the election Ia 1885, the Republican
scribblers and hOwlers have bJen busy
very busy-chsrging that 1t was done
by Democrats; to who to charge IL on
and what Democrats was a puZzlerr
even TO BestOD, KuEiz q Co. After the
Penitenti4ry was reOrganlZ9d Ia June,
1856 this crowd found an able assistant
iu IN Air nefartOus and lying charges
about Demo Gratis having committed a
forgery in he person Of bnOWledgCu
fellow who was appointed guard In the
Penltentiary about The time mentioned.
This fellow informed t1e crowd that he
had long thought If plan to ms ke the
public believe 1t was done at the Pent.
tsntiary by Democrats. This ides some.
what astOlished the crowd named, al d
reckless, nnprinclpled politicians that
they are, but they told the fellow to go
ahead with his plan, and If 1t could be
worked, they would order Prosecuting
Attorney Huling to make political capi'
tai out OF 1t II he could do 80.
This guard had charge OF the motor
ious and desperate cOnvicts Campbell
aud Francis. After training these des-
peradOes for weeks what to do and say,
the crowd named along with Hnling be-
gan 10 make frequent night visits to
the Penitentiary, when Campbell and
Francis were taken out of the ''insane
department" where they were locked
to the front building, where they could
hn kan ID in m hQDn
taught them. Finally, after many
drunken feasts and orgies with Camp
bell and Francis, HOling finally got o
special grand jury" of politicians like
himself and the crowd named, and had
respectable, decent citizens indited for
committing an act of which they were
perfectly innocent.
This made BeatOn & Co. smile, to
think innocent men were indicted; but
the Taxpayers of franklin county did
not smile. They saw neither sense nor
use In using thousands of dollars to
convict men on the oath of such deepe-
radoes as Campbell and Franc s, who
had been taught what to say by their
tutor, and afterwards by HuliRg, ,Beaton,
Kurlz s. Co. The result OF their iufam-
GUS tffJrts to convict innocent men was
that this county gave an increase of
about 1900 Democratic ma lrity last fall.
To show that this crowd knew that
their talk and blow about tally sheet
fOrgeries being committed at the Peni.
tentiary, was an infamous lie, 1t is only
necessary to publish the following by the
Columbus correspondent of the New
York Tribune, a fellow employee at the
mi hn
trains and runs with the gang named,
In this letter published by the N. Y
Tribune of the date Of September, z,
1887. he says:
"At the State election two years ago,
the Democrats caused the tally sheets of
the Fourth Ward of Cincinnati, and
those of the Thirteenth Ward Of Colum-
bus to be srtisticslly forged to elect
members to the General Assemb y.
The fOrgers of the tally sheets were
never discovered. The confession Of two
Democrats, one of whom Is dead, has
revealed that the man who was I'm
ployed to forge the sheets, was al Otfi.
Ger Of Cincinnati, skilled to the extent
of genius In peDmanshlp. He was con-
tVOlled by the reigniug political ma
chine. He arranged the tally sheets
of the Fourth Ward, Cincinnati,
and then was sent by a special train
at midnight tn Columbus to forge the
sheets there. This man lives at Clncin-
natl, and when other criminal prOsecu-
tions against him are underway he will
be brought to Columbus for the tally
sh 'et forgery
Won't that make Bsaton s. Co.,
In kA IN hnf oil
about Is charged by their Tribune tool
on "twO Democrats, one of whom Is
dead" and the alive one they will try
to get into the PenitentiaTy "fOr the
tally sheet forgery" after he does some
thing in Cincinnati for which he can
bs prosecuted. What railroad run 8
special train from Cincinnati to COlUm-
bus to commit tally sheet forgery?
the Pan Handle, Midland and l. B. &
W.; the three roads run between this
city and CIDclnuati should not sll speak
at once. 1t Is we'll known that
Huling tried to have the
DOlIles entered into the cases of
Francis and Campbell who had
been indicted for perjury, will now,
after having innocent men indicted
for q crime Of which they knew moth
ing, have nOllies entered In cases. de
will, If his political partners, BeatOn,
Kurtz g Co. tell him, as he has been
under their control ever since the for
gsries were committed on the tally
sheets and poll books of the 18Th ward.
Last year Foraker and his crowd,
either on the stump or in their press,
charged that the f'rgeries on the tally
sheet and poll book In the 18th ward,
this city, was committed In the Ohio
PsnitentiaIy by Democrats. Now they
are so ashamed Of this charge, that they
get one Of the employees at the Republi-
can State Committee rooms to say that
1t was committed by an official Of Gin
cinnati who was sent by special train
at midnight to Columbus to forge the
sheets there"
The fellows who run the Republican
machine and the Republican politics
hereabouts are not what they would
like to be considered, scientific lisrs,"
but they have proven themselves to be
laundering knaves, and the sooner
"sAin-cane" Foraker takes them In, and
then takes their holes in after them
that much sooner will he be considered
man that knows something else but
political knsvery. N,